Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and a Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Limits of Nationalism (CUP, 2003) and for the Hebrew edition of his latest book A Political Theory for the Jewish People, Gans won the 2011 Bahat Prize for best scholarly manuscript.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.